24 January 2012

Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1895 at FamilySearch.org

For those researching their Jewish ancestors in Austria, especially Vienna, there is a great database available at http://www.familysearch.org/. FamilySearch, in cooperation with the Vienna City and Provincial Archives, has produced the database of Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1895.

The images to the records are also part of the collection are also included. A search for Israel Antler yields the following record. It includes the date and place of birth, when he arrived, his location and religion.

Clicking on the original image yields the document below.

For those who are researching those who lived in Vienna or the many who travelled through the city this is a wonderful source for identifying more information about those ancestors.

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Why the Knowles Collection?

From an early age I have been trying to find as much information as I could about my gggrandfather, Morris DavidRosenbaum, a Polish Jew. In my search and through my work as a Reference Consultant in the British Research unit at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, I have compiled records of The Jewish people. This collection, linking Jewish families, is available free to all. Hopefully, people will come together to share the stories of their own families.

Size of the databases (28 Jan 2015)

Jews of British Isles 208,349Jews of Europe380,637Jews of North America489,400Jews of South America and Caribbean21,351Jews of Africa & Orient37,618Jews of South Pacific21,518

Total 1,158,873

Growth and Change

In the 7 years since the Knowles Collection was first published, the numbers have climbed from just over 7,500 to over 1,000,000as of April of 2014. So many of our ancestors left their native lands for new homes. Because of that movement the collection will now be in 6 different databases. All of them will be under the Knowles Collection umbrella. They are Jewsof The British Isles; Jews of the North America; Jews of Europe; Jews of South America and the Caribbean; and Jews of Africa and the Orient and the newest one, Jews of the Southern Pacific.. This is a great indication of how universal our families are, and of how much still needs to be done.